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Calculation of survival rates for cancer.

J Berkson, +1 more
- Vol. 25, Iss: 11, pp 270-286
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The article was published on 1950-05-24 and is currently open access. It has received 919 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Survival rate & Cancer.

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Studies in the History of Probability and Statistics. XXXV

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The effect of preoperative systemic blood pressure on closed mitral valvuloplasty: A study of 1,630 patients with up to 15 year follow-up☆

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Trends in Colorectal Cancer Survival in Switzerland

TL;DR: Decreasing mortality is thought to be related to improved treatment during the past years as well as generalisation of colorectal cancer screening among the Swiss population.
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Survival analysis of acute myocardial infarction patients using non-parametric and parametric approaches

TL;DR: An investigation about the survival pattern of acute myocardial infarction patients was explored, using non-parametric and parametric modeling strategies and the Weibull distribution is found to be the best fit to the observed data.
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